Can you sound like an elephant? Or hop like a bunny? Our Time encourages your child to uncover an engaging musical world while building confidence, self-control and communications skills. Singing, imitating sounds, rhyming and object identification foster language skills. Creative movement to various musical “moods” develops a sense of balance, timing and spatial awareness. Listening and turn-taking encourage blossoming social skills.

Kindermusik Our Time is designed for children 18 months to 3-1/2 years of age. Along with an accompanying parent or caregiver, children meet weekly for a 45-minute class and enjoy singing, moving, listening and interacting socially, and playing simple instruments. Exploration Time encourages a child's discovery of specially designed instruments, textures, sounds and movements; language skills are fostered with singing, sound imitation, and vocal play; Music & Movement Story Time encourages emergent literacy skills; and creative dancing affirms a child's urge to move.

The Our Time program is four semesters long, and you may start at any point in the series.  Refer to Schedule to see which semester is being offered currently. The classes include:

Fall - Milk and Cookies empowers the parent to lead the child through familiar, everyday home activities such as cooking, dusting, and washing clothes.  Baking cookies, eating cupcakes, blowing on hot cross buns, wiggling like jelly, going grocery shopping, and making tea are all represented in songs and activities.  Home materials include two CD’s, two literature books, a home activity book, and an instrument (stir xylophone), all in a lunch carry bag.

Spring - Fiddle-Dee-Dee takes its name from the folk song about the fly who married the bumblebee, and the theme from ‘fiddling around’ is present throughout the semester.  Creatures from the animal kingdom, whether furry, web-footed, winged, or whiskered are explored in this unit. Home materials include two CD’s, two literature books, a home activity book, and an instrument (fiddlesticks), all in a doghouse carry box.

Fall - Wiggles and Giggles features songs, activities and literature books surrounding the ever-exciting themes of taking a bath, animal movements, and love for family and friends.  Home materials include two CD’s, two literature books, a home activity book, and an instrument (zig zag blocks), all in a beach carry bag.

Spring - Away We Go explores the exciting world of things that go!  Singing, dancing, and developmentally appropriate activities lead this transportation adventure to a discovery of trains, cars, buses, horses, wagons, airplanes, and boats.  Home materials include two CD’s, two literature books, a home activity book, and two harmonicas (one for the child, one for the parent), all in a train carry box.